A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the great fantasy novels of all time-a story that Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"-featuring the world's most popular superhero, a shape-shifting monkey whose time-traveling adventures, kung-fu prowess, and mischievous antics have amazed, amused, and entertained in countless TV, film, comic-book, and video-game adaptations, now in a thrilling new one-volume translation
A Penguin Classics Hardcover
One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Monkey King (or Journey to the West) was written anonymously in 1580 during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures in the 7th century AD, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong, one of the most memorable reprobates of world literature; a rice-loving...